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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Housing prices have increased far faster than incomes (Miller 2015), making affordable homeownership inaccessible for many aspiring homeowners (Hackett et al. CLTs offer reliable stewardship of community land assets and a long-term promise of affordable housing (Davis 2010). How are CLTs different from other affordability tools?

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Community Progress Welcomes 2022 Community Revitalization Fellows from New York, Pennsylvania, and Puerto Rico

Center for Community Progress

May 24, 2022 – The Center for Community Progress (Community Progress) is honored to share the participants for the 2022-23 Community Revitalization Fellowship (CRF). The Center for Community Progress announces the selected fellowship cohorts for this year’s Community Revitalization Fellowship. WASHINGTON, D.C. –

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Remote workers: When do they count for local economic development incentives?

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

“Remote work is here to stay,” says a 2022 Forbes article. Research by McKinsey & Company released in June 2022 reveals that 58 percent of Americans reported having the opportunity to work from home “at least one day a week,” and 35 percent had the option to work from home “five days a week.”. 304 (2010). Reynolds, Jr.,

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The Primacy of Social Capital for Community Resilience

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

Magis ( 2010 ) similarly defines it as “the existence, development and engagement of community resources by community members to thrive in an environment characterized by change, uncertainty, unpredictability and surprise” (p. It matters for economic development. 363) Social capital matters.

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It's not the age of the housing stock, but the ability of property owners to maintain it: Disinvestment in Pittsburgh

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Pittsburgh has an incredible history in community development. Those initiatives have influenced me greatly and taught me a lot. -- " Urban economic development strategies: do you invest in people or places? Ironically one of the influences is a program developed in Pennsylvania, called Elm Street.

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Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

This forces less high value uses out of the city, counter to the Jane Jacobs point that cities need "a large stock of old buildings" -- based on the assumption of lower rents -- to support the development of innovative uses, and lower value uses that add to the diversity of a city (like a sewing machine repair shop).

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Learning what not to do from the New England Patriots football team

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

From " Design Thinking ," American Libraries, 2008 I used action planning concepts when I did a pedestrian and bicycle plan for Baltimore County (" Best practice bicycle planning for suburban settings using the "action planning" method ," 2010).

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